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• Integration with Primary Care, also threaded in disorder chapters and utilizing case study content, addresses integration of psychiatric disorders with basic health needs blended. • NCLEX Notes help students focus on important application areas to prepare for the NCLEX. • Emergency Care Alerts highlight important situa tions in psychiatric nursing care that the nurse should recognize as emergencies. • Research for Best Practice boxes highlight today’s focus on evidence-based practice for best practice, pre senting findings and implications of studies that are applicable to psychiatric nursing practice. • Mental Health Inequities boxes present evidence- based information demonstrating the impact of social determinants, discrimination, and structural barriers that result in vulnerabilities to mental health issues, care, and access to treatment. • Trauma-Informed Approach boxes illustrate the impact of trauma on mental health as well as princi ples of trauma informed care for nursing students to include in their mental health nursing practice. • Reflection of a Nurse boxes present a scenario that was not effective followed by a reflection of the inter vention. Students are provided with reflection ques tions relevant to the scenario. • Building Clinical Judgment with SBAR boxes con sist of an SBAR communication followed by brief questions for the student to provide rationale for the recommendation. • Therapeutic Dialogue boxes compare and con trast therapeutic and nontherapeutic conversations to encourage students by example to develop effective communication skills. • Psychoeducation Checklists identify content areas for patient and family education related to specific dis orders and their treatment. These checklists support critical thinking by encouraging students to develop patient-specific teaching plans based on chapter content. • Clinical Judgment Vignette boxes are twofold and present reality-based clinical portraits of patients who exhibit the symptoms described in the text, followed by short-answer clinical judgment questions for the stu dent to identify relevant cues, analyze cues, prioritize hypotheses, and generate solutions. • Medication Profile boxes present a thorough picture of commonly prescribed medications for patients with mental health problems. The profiles complement the text discussions of biologic processes known to be asso ciated with various mental health disorders. • Key Diagnostic Characteristics summaries describe diagnostic criteria, target symptoms, and target associated

people experiencing housing instability, and those with co-occurring mental disorders. Chapter 43 addresses the care of people with selected medical disorders that are typically found in people with mental disorders. The text presents complex concepts in easy-to-­ understand language with multiple examples and expla nations. Students find the text easy to comprehend, filled with meaningful information, and applicable to all areas of nursing practice. PEDAGOGICAL FEATURES The eighth edition of Psychiatric Nursing: Contemporary Practice incorporates a multitude of pedagogical features to focus and direct student learning, including the following: By including evidence-based content from which stu dents can draw valid inferences, students can develop clinical judgment and decision-making skills. • Expanded Table of Contents allows readers to find and refer to concepts from one location. • Learning Objectives , Key Terms , and Key Con cepts in the chapter openers cue readers on what will be encountered and what is important to understand in each chapter. • Summary of Key Points listed at the end of each chapter provides quick access to important chapter content to facilitate study and review. • Developing Clinical Judgment includes competency- based statements and asks questions that require stu dents to think critically about chapter content and the important actions to include in their nursing practice. • Movie, TV, or Streaming Viewing Guides list cur rent examples of movies that depict various mental health disorders and that are widely available. Viewing points are provided to serve as a basis for discussion in class and among students. SPECIAL FEATURES • Case Studies threaded in the disorder chapters are related to the Nursing Care Plan and Therapeutic Dia logue features, giving students the opportunity to apply content. Cases will come from the Patient Experience Videos, to help tie content from the book to the videos. For chapters without a corresponding video, a new case study has been created. Exposure to patients builds student confidence and provides a seamless transition to the practice world. • Wellness Challenges threaded in disorder chapters focus on keeping patients healthy and utilize case study “patient” information to apply the content.

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